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- Upon further reflection...
05/25/12 - 12:20 - Re: Unnecessary conflict
05/24/12 - 09:33 - Unnecessary conflict
05/24/12 - 05:51 - calling all skeptics
05/24/12 - 02:29 - re: I had heard about similar
05/24/12 - 01:17
Dr., you've set up a false
Dr., you've set up a false dichotomy. The choice isn't poor education vs. no education. It's poor education vs. whatever the child's next-best option is. Might be employment, might be apprenticeship, might be self-education.
The way to reduce child labor and increase education is not to mandate school attendance, it is to make education the best option (in the long run) compared to working.